Word: 59th
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Stanley Conklin Swift, Gr. '15-16, a private in Co. D, 59th Inf., died from wounds on Oct. 4, 1918, in France. He went to the front in the middle of July, and on the 19th of that month was wounded in the thigh and hand. For five weeks he remained in a hospital and was then sent to a replacement camp. He returned again to the front and was later reported, missing. The official telegram reports that he died from wounds. Swift had been recommended for promotion to corporal in July, just before he was wounded...
Chaplain Couve is a "Croix de Guerre" man. He served first in ambulance trains, then as chaplain with the 59th Division of Infantry. For fourteen years Chaplain Couve was a missionary in the French Congo. He is now Assistant Director of the Missionary Society of the Comite Protestant Francais and comes to this country to interpret to the United States the spirit of France and help foster cordiality between the two countries during the progress of Peace negotiations...
...officer in charge of the covering fire during the engagement on the French from in which Allen Shortt '17 was reported to have been captured, he has been awarded the military cross for capturing a German machine gun. Shortt, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was also mentioned in several official dispatches for singular bravery in leading his platform across the so-called "No-Man-Land" into the German French where he captured practically single-handed, the enemy...
...cable message received at Brazzaville, Ont., from London, states that Allen Short '17, a lieutenant in the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion, was reported missing after an engagement on the French front...
According to a cable from London received at Brockville, Ont., Allan Shortt '17, who was attached to the machine gun section of the 59th Canadian battalion was officially announced as missing after an engagement on the French front. Shortt, who is lieutenant, is thought to be a prisoner of war. He is a nephew of the late Seth Low, LL.D., '90, former mayor-of New York, and was a member of the Class of 1917 when he went to Brockville to enlist...